Ba zing ...ok zMan, I agree I write Assembler, C ...on the MF ..I agree ..multi-tasking is a bit rough
Scott ford www.identityforge.com Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand. - Chinese Proverb On Feb 16, 2013, at 4:14 PM, zMan <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 3:26 PM, Scott Ford <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Thomas, >> >> I don't follow, writing in several languages , what awkward to do in >> cobol, supervisory stuff yes for sure. >> > > Yoda? Is that you? :-) > > If this was supposed to be asking "What is it that's awkward to do in > COBOL?", try calculating the offset between two data elements. For one. I > know that every time I go to write something in it, I run up against "You > just can't do that in this language" and my response is "Seriously? Wow." > (OK, or I write an assembler function to enable what I need...) > > Admittedly, COBOL isn't as bad as I'd been led to believe by three decades > of avoiding it -- but as the saying goes, "You can write your program in > <pick a language>, or you can write a story about your program in COBOL". > -- > zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it" > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
